Podcasts

Listen to podcasts presented by and featuring UCL IEHC experts on topics from virtual choirs and COVID-19, to cycling in urban areas.

Our podcasts

Oh Pod! x UCL

‘Oh Pod! x UCL’ is a mental health podcast series hosting honest discussions between researchers and communities in east London.

The Lifecourse Podcast

The Lifecourse Podcast is a series of audio interviews about research that is addressing major policy issues around our health and well-being and our family and work circumstances.

PHOTONIC: Prehospital triage for suspected stroke patients

The PHOTONIC podcast is presented by Jeremy Dearling (PPI partner), with Dr Angus Ramsay (Principal Investigator).

Oral Health Matters

Oral Health Matters is a podcast from the Dental Public Heath Group that shines a spotlight on oral health and calls for it to be embraced as a key part of the global public health agenda.

A blue and white background with "Oral Health Matters" in blue text and a head and shoulders photo of Professor Richard Watt.

Creative Lives: Young people’s mental health and wellbeing by UCL

Creative Lives is a podcast supported by UCL Grand Challenges, which opens provocative conversations, experimenting with big ideas and local practices. 

 

Linking our lives

A podcast about research using the ONS Longitudinal Study.

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Podcasts featuring our experts

Health in a Handbasket - Episode 4: Does healthcare have a racism problem?

Shoba is a GP and clinical academic in UCL’s eHealth unit where she spends her time developing and evaluating digital health services. 

Shoba has recently completed a secondment at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, London region - a part of the Department of Health and Social Care - where she undertook research to support the development of a strategic framework for addressing ethnic health inequalities through an anti-racist health lens.

Singing the praises of communities with Dr Daisy Fancourt and Eric Whitacre

“Every single person feels part of something larger than themselves.” Communities are vital for a functioning society, but in an ever-changing world, has the concept of what ‘community’ means evolved into something new? 

 

The planet, economy and ourselves post-Covid: health trends in rich countries

COVID-19 reminds us of our deep vulnerability to environmental threats. Climate change is the biggest threat of all, and rich countries must seize this moment to build a truly sustainable future. This brief lecture reflects on a major obstacle to such transformation: the widespread assumption that economic growth is obligatory in the interest of our wellbeing and health.